| Harvard sentences! | |
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| Pardon the unicode: | |
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| ├───────────────┤ One day when playing with | |
| │╭─────────────╮│ Iridium, I overheard the | |
| ││ Iridium ││ most peculiar message: | |
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| │╰─────────────╯│ " The hog crawled under | |
| │═══════════════│ the high fence. Move the | |
| ├───────────────┤ var over the hot fire " | |
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| │ ___ ___ ___ │ It sounded like something | |
| │[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]│ straight out of a bond movie! | |
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| Here is the audio sample: | |
| harvard_stencences.mp3 | |
| After some investigation, it turns out these are called | |
| 'harvard sentences' and are designed to be phonetically | |
| balanced and used in testing of telcom systems. | |
| Ah that makes complete sense now. - Alas, not 007. | |
| When talking about this on sdf's #gopher channel, | |
| cat from baud.baby | |
| shared a phone number that gives an endless stream | |
| of these: (858) 651-5050 | |
| Next time you find yourself in need for some | |
| phonetically balanced goodness, you can give that one | |
| a ring! | |